Definition of clingy

1. cling [ v ] come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separationExamples:"The dress clings to her body""The label stuck to the box""The sushi rice grains cohere"

Used in print:

(Joyce O. Hertzler, American Social Institutions;...)

The unifying effect of religion is also brought_out in the fact that historically peoples have clung together as more_or_less cohesive cultural units , with religion as the dominant bond , even though spatially dispersed and not politically organized .

(Clement Greenberg, "Collage" in his Art and...)

Some time in 1912 , Picasso cut_out and folded a piece_of_paper in the shape of a guitar ; to this he glued and fitted other pieces_of_paper and four taut strings , thus creating a sequence of flat surfaces in real and sculptural space to which there clung only the vestige of a picture_plane .

(Robert Penn Warren, Wilderness....)

The figure was close enough now for him to see the nose twitching to dislodge the drop clinging there .